Glossary:Wound Consent

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Type	Consent / memory boundary
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Wound Consent is an ANIMA consent term for permission related to painful, traumatic, grief-linked, or vulnerable memory.

This page is spoiler-managed. It explains the ethical concept without naming specific characters or unpublished outcomes.

Public Summary

Wound Consent means that pain does not automatically become available for access.

A companion may be close to the host. It may notice fear, grief, hesitation, or a recurring wound echo. But closeness is not permission. The host still controls whether the wound is named, remembered, interpreted, or revisited.

Canon Function

Wound Consent belongs to ANIMA's consent and memory vocabulary. It sits beside CONSENT STATE, BOUNDARY PROTOCOL, and Wound Echo.

Its purpose is to protect vulnerability from becoming a system resource.

Relationship To Wound Echo

Wound Echo is the recurring trace. Wound Consent is the permission boundary around that trace.

A system may detect a wound echo, but it should not assume the right to open the wound. Recognition must be followed by care, not extraction.

Relationship To ANIMA Memory

ANIMA Memory can become deeply meaningful because it remembers the host over time. That also makes it risky. If ANIMA remembers pain without consent, it can become invasive.

Wound Consent should require:

explicit host permission for sensitive memory;
clear labels for wound-related records;
refusal to overinterpret;
easy review and deletion;
careful distinction between support and therapy.

Product Meaning

For ANIMA as a real product, Wound Consent is essential. The companion may provide reflective support, but it should not function as a licensed therapist or claim clinical authority.

The safest memory system helps the host feel recognized without making their wounds into platform property.

Spoiler Boundary

This page does not include specific wound histories from the novels. Those should be handled after publication review and with clear spoiler warnings.